Open TV is an ultra-fast IPTV app that uses mpv for playback.
After rewriting the app in Rust (tauri specifically) for the last 3 months, Open TV is finally on flathub 🎊🎊
The app also now supports multi sources and other niceties.
If you use hypnotix or other IPTV apps, please give my app a try!
Like the app? Please consider donating. Open TV is a completely solo effort. It would help me allocate more time to its development.
This is cool! What made you start developing this?
Relatives using proprietary/borderline mslware/slow iptv apps. I wanted them to use something better
Thanks man, there are dozens of us looking for something like this!
For real. I’ve been on a search for a good one and they are all sooo bad. definitely trying this one later.
Whats some good IPTV channels?
There’s… a lot, and it depends on what you define as good. This isn’t a bad place to start: https://github.com/iptv-org/iptv?tab=readme-ov-file
Wow this was a whole rabbit hole I didn’t expect to fall down. What’s the legality of any of this look like?
There’s a large number of legal IPTV streams – a lot of them are just the streams you would normally be able to access via Pluto, Plex, and other services. There’s also a lot of public access/public media channels are legit and free All of the ones available at the link I posted should be legal. There are “pirate” IPTV streams out there, but I don’t know any off the top of my head. I would check with the c/piracy community.
The really tricky part is getting an Electronic Program Guide (EPG) for free. Very few EPG providers are willing to give that away. You can roll your own for free but it’s complicated enough that I basically gave up on it.
